#good technique

[greenticklerdreams]

One finger in each... perfect.

(Liberating this gif from a deactivated blog because one of my mutuals really likes it. Hi, @ticklingmesoftly. 😉)

#frenchtickling is brilliant as usual #good technique

[commissionsdarian]

Oh I fucking love online shopping sometimes

#I didn't even edit this #this is just how it was advertised #which honestly #good technique #I see the appeal now #I too want to look like this

[keepscrollinghun]

pop watching his son's behavior on aon

#he's surfing ready for the ocean #good technique #🔴⚪ #amazon AON #aaron ramsdale #arsenal #afc #arsenal fc

[ryssbelle]

Drew a bunch of Marinettes in a bunch of different artists styles it was a lot of fun!!

Artists who's styles I mimicked: @buggachat @hamsternamedmarinette @ladybeug @sabertoothwalrus and @anna-scribbles all epic artists 🤟😎

#my art #marinette dupain cheng #miraculous ladybug #miraculous fanart #style mimic #sorry for the @s btw #yall should go follow those artists if you dont already also #this was sort of inspired by a post the three artists on the top row made #i think they all got together and drew with one another #which is really cool #but i was genuinely confused because i mimic styles a lot #and ive seen others do it too so i was just like #wow they really know each others styles really well #until i thought about it and read their posts some more #style mimicking is really freaking fun and i think its really good practice #and a good way to explore other ways of doing things #like you really have to learn new techniques and get out of your comfort zone #also anna scribbles i could not find a recent pic of marinette in her main outfit #so thats the only marinette i drew in different clothes cuz i couldnt find a more recent ref of you drawing it #anna scribble marinette has privileges thats the others dont #but ye #i also threw my own style in there as a frame of reference to what me draw like #ive drawn marinette before just not in a loooong while #sabertooth walrus was the hardest for me to mimic cuz they have a broad range in their style #so its like which sabertooth do i wanna be in this pic #Buggachat has such a distinct style thats very clean and consistent which is amazing so they were easy #being easy or hard arent bad things either it also has to do with like styles meeting up with one another #buggachats and mine arent too too different in some shapes and aspects #so yeah itd be easier plus they drew marinette like 3 sec ago so i have more recent of a ref #as opposed to sabertooth who i have a recent ref of ladybug but not marinette so we got two diff styles in one

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 5: Flip Slip.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 4.5)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #mdzs au #Yungmang Jiang Training Arc AU #lan wangji #wei wuxian #digital art #Trying out some digital techniques to see if I can get closer to feel/style of my traditional comics. #So far the biggest difference is *colouring* Digital colouring feels...not good. I have complained about this before and I'll complain agai #Before we get into the sad stuff with Yungmeng Jiang in the PD-MDZS comics lets have some lighthearted fun! #Remember that if anything bad happens to these Jiang disciples in the canon comic - they are happy in this AU B'*) #I think one of the funniest things about the teenxian dynamic is how WWX accidently finds things that get LWJ to feel flustered. #My guy wwx goes 'I'm going to lightly bully/tease this nerd 'cause his reactions are funny.' and LWJ goes “My god. He's everything to me.” #Part two of the fun part of this dynamic is that LWJ is ever so lightly self aware enough to LOATHE THIS CRUSH. #Hence why I have been marinating on this 'Accidental Lan headband miscommunication' concept. #This is how LWJ assumes that WWX knows what the band means in this AU. This will be relevant later. #And YES! I am still going to be making comics for this AU. I have so many ideas I simply can't hold onto forever.

[comradekatara]

ily king on god we’re gonna get u a razor

#id in alt text #avatar the last airbender #atla #HARU #art #mart #underrated king…. #just shave that mustache & he’s perfect #i definitely disregarded him for way too long (for unfortunate facial hair decisions i must say) #but he’s literally awesome and so cute w katara <33 and brown <33 #also yes i am now obsessed w this watercolor painting technique and i will probably draw everything in this style for the foreseeable future #until i inevitably get sick of it of course #but rn in my mind im like wow this looks sooooo good #and it’s so easy #thank u procreate pocket watercolor & calligraphy brush u guys are my best friends <3 #friendship ended w wet acrylic etc etc #anyway. i love him he’s so wretched of the earth core. literally #also his hair is so fun to draw #his beautiful luscious locks #if haru has ten fans i am one of them if haru has zero fans i am dead etc etc etc

[reasonsforhope]

Humans are so cute. They think they can outsmart birds. They place nasty metal spikes on rooftops and ledges to prevent birds from nesting there.

It’s a classic human trick known in urban design as “evil architecture”: designing a place in a way that’s meant to deter others. Think of the city benches you see segmented by bars to stop homeless people sleeping there.

But birds are genius rebels. Not only are they undeterred by evil architecture, they actually use it to their advantage, according to a new Dutch study published in the journal Deinsea.

Crows and magpies, it turns out, are learning to rip strips of anti-bird spikes off of buildings and use them to build their nests. It’s an incredible addition to the growing body of evidence about the intelligence of birds, so wrongly maligned as stupid that “bird-brained” is still commonly used as an insult...

Magpies also use anti-bird spikes for their nests. In 2021, a hospital patient in Antwerp, Belgium, looked out the window and noticed a huge magpie’s nest in a tree in the courtyard. Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra of Leiden-based Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the study’s authors, went to collect the nest and found that it was made out of 50 meters of anti-bird strips, containing no fewer than 1,500 metal spikes.

Hiemstra describes the magpie nest as “an impregnable fortress.”

Pictured: A huge magpie nest made out of 1,500 metal spikes.

Magpies are known to build roofs over their nests to prevent other birds from stealing their eggs and young. Usually, they scrounge around in nature for thorny plants or spiky branches to form the roof. But city birds don’t need to search for the perfect branch — they can just use the anti-bird spikes that humans have so kindly put at their disposal.

“The magpies appear to be using the pins exactly the same way we do: to keep other birds away from their nest,” Hiemstra said.

Another urban magpie nest, this one from Scotland, really shows off the roof-building tactic:

Pictured: A nest from Scotland shows how urban magpies are using anti-bird spikes to construct a roof meant to protect their young and eggs from predators.

Birds had already been spotted using upward-pointing anti-bird spikes as foundations for nests. In 2016, the so-called Parkdale Pigeon became Twitter-famous for refusing to give up when humans removed her first nest and installed spikes on her chosen nesting site, the top of an LCD monitor on a subway platform in Melbourne. The avian architect rebelled and built an even better home there, using the spikes as a foundation to hold her nest more securely in place.

...Hiemstra’s study is the first to show that birds, adapting to city life, are learning to seek out and use our anti-bird spikes as their nesting material. Pretty badass, right?

The genius of birds — and other animals we underestimate

It’s a well-established fact that many bird species are highly intelligent. Members of the corvid family, which includes crows and magpies, are especially renowned for their smarts. Crows can solve complex puzzles, while magpies can pass the “mirror test” — the classic test that scientists use to determine if a species is self-aware.

Studies show that some birds have evolved cognitive skills similar to our own: They have amazing memories, remembering for months the thousands of different hiding places where they’ve stashed seeds, and they use their own experiences to predict the behavior of other birds, suggesting they’ve got some theory of mind.

And, as author Jennifer Ackerman details in The Genius of Birds, birds are brilliant at using tools. Black palm cockatoos use twigs as drumsticks, tapping out a beat on a tree trunk to get a female’s attention. Jays use sticks as spears to attack other birds...

Birds have also been known to use human tools to their advantage. When carrion crows want to crack a walnut, for example, they position the nut on a busy road, wait for a passing car to crush the shell, then swoop down to collect the nut and eat it. This behavior has been recorded several times in Japanese crows.

But what’s unique about Hiemstra’s study is that it shows birds using human tools, specifically designed to thwart birds’ plans, in order to thwart our plans instead. We humans try to keep birds away with spikes, and the birds — ingenious rebels that they are — retort: Thanks, humans!

-via Vox, July 26, 2023

#birds are literally learning how to better live/survive alongside us #this is like. actually kind of remarkable. and the technique is spreading including to other species. #is this hopepunk? it kinda feels like hopepunk to me. #animals are literally learning how to use our attempts to get rid of them against us #that's kind of amazing #and also VERY encouraging re: life's innate resilience #crows #magpie #corvid #crow #bird #bird nest #bird nerd #bird news #adaptation #urban animals #ornithology #climate adaptation #kinda #good news #hope #hope posting #hopepunk #animal intelligence #wildlife #animals are awesome

[lazycranberrydoodles]

why does this keep happening to them

#i forget how much of a clown show they are LMAO #(xie lian voice) i gotta check his body for injuries!! yeah!!1 #their interaction after xl runs off and promptly gets shot at is so good also #(lying) 'thanks for saving my human form' (knows hes lying) 'yeah hahaha np' #'but uh. dont do that technique on anyone else' 'yup got it' #FELLAS #tgcf #art #lmao #doodle #sketch #hualian #hua cheng #xie lian #mxtx #my art #digital art #tian guan ci fu #heaven official’s blessing #hob

[jschrepp-illustrations]

Rival Felix, Rival Ferdinand, and Rival Lorenz would like to battle!

#fe3h #fire emblem three houses #fire emblem #pokemon x fe3h #pokemon #pokemon au #fanart #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #felix hugo fraldarius #edelgard von hresvelg #ferdinand von aegir #claude von riegan #lorenz hellman gloucester #so many fire emblem names #illustrators on tumblr #It was fun to draw these though #I doubt felix would describe himself as a rival #he just wants to practice his battle technique alone and dimitri is very good at accidentally finding him

[theoldkyokodied]

Watched Re-Animator. Think these two should get to kiss

Edit: DISCLAIMER: Before you decide to watch Re-Animator, make sure to check for content warnings, there is a scene that a lot of people choose to skip!

#danbert #herbert west #dan cain #reanimator #re-animator #herbert x dan #i guess lmao #dan x herbert #gestures wildly #i have many thought about them actually but its easier to just make them kiss than put anything into words #even dusting of the good ol' 'constrast lighting where they connect' technique. its like my silverware of artstyle quirks #i have only watched the first 2 movies btw. am scared of the third .....oh and i watched it like 4 days ago #hence the hyperfixation :)

[booksandmate]

*stands up* you *fixes sunglasses* my nefertiti fooling fellow *sluttily approaches* are abOut to perfOrm on the wEst end stAge *lowers voice* if that doesn’t make you a profesional conjurer *fuck me* i don’t know what does

#wake up babe new flirting technique just dropped #good omens

[sesamenom]

Evil finrod, because he is unusually snake-coded for a protagonist

#silm #silmarillion #finrod #he still lives in tol in gaurhoth #tried out some new rendering techniques #imo pretty good for fabrics but idk if i like how shiny the skin looks #also i have no idea how to shade a snake without turning it into a worm lol

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

this popped into my head and i had to draw it As Fast As Humanly Possible

bonus:

#and then wally internalized it forever and Never let it go. he is the prettiest. Him. #i thought: hey theres that 'whos a good boy' bit dog owners do #yeah what if that happened w/ wally & barnaby but its role reversed #theyre so... their friendship is Important to me. i hope it falls apart <3 #theyre just so cute #the silliest fellas around.... #scribble salad #welcome home #i think that if i do a vines p.3 ill do it in this hasty slapdash. uh. can it be called a technique #instead of slogging through making sure its Clean #itll be better for it...

[forecast0ctopus]

episode 1 if merlin actually landed a hit on arthur lmao

#the worst punch of all time #u cant convince me he knows how to throw a good punch look at the times hes attempted. #even if they landed they wouldve been Bad #merlin pulling the classic marty mcfly distraction technique because i think its funny and also i love. marty #these are so like. not good. but i had to draw it out real quick before i forgot #bbc merlin #merlin #merlin fanart #arthur pendragon #bbc merlin fanart #merlin art #arthur pendragon fanart #bbc merlin art

[beaulesbian]

One Piece ep. 260 || "Even a monster like him isn't the leader of the group?"

+ bonus

#one piece #onepieceedit #opgraphics #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #zolu #hehe this scene #zoro one piece #luffy one piece #luzo #mine #gif:one piece #gif:op anime #water 7 arc #water seven arc #i kinda mixed the manga and anime translations. bc i like the “cut it. its in the way.” “gotcha.” better #but zoro's sword technique was called the castle gate in the manga im reading. and the rashomon thing was in anime so i left it there #it sounds cool. i hope its okay #“you heard me. i said cut it.” luffy knowing immediately that zoro could do it. it just !!! precious #also the others around wondering why zoro isnt the main leader/captain himself! its so good!! like hes this capable and more #but without luffy he wouldnt even want to be a pirate or on another ship. he wouldnt have his purpose #but he also keeps luffy in check and making sure he's the captain him and the others can follow !! they're insane #one piece episode 260 #one piece chapter 371

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Wei Wuxian 🤝 Maleficent: Not being invited to a child's birthday party but showing up anyways (to make things worse).

(for @youremysunshine8)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #jin ling #jin zixuan #jiang yanli #The joke here is that the glue is a 'curse'. The golden hat is now a party hat *forever*. #The prompt was just 'wwx celebartes jin ling's birthday' but what is an uncle if not a force to be reckoned with? #YLLZ would rock the Maleficent garments. I think we need to consider the implications of a possible crossover AU. #He would be *that* petty bitch who shows up uninvited like “oh...widdle old me didn't get to come? Get cursed idiots.” #This one comic sent me on a deep dive on the history of glue. There is a lot of history on glue. #Humans will see two objects and go 'I need to find a way to put those together'. Not to mention the amount of variety in glues. #I am now imagining the YLLZ doing his dark research on glue. The forbidden techniques to creating forever glue. #Glue so good it can piece a soul back together. Xue yang wishes he could get his hands on that recipe.